Managing a fleet of iPhones that used containerisation to separate The Treasury data from employees’ personal information has been a journey of mistakes and lessons for CIO Peter Alexander.
Hamish Barwick |
27 May |
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The Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill is back on the government agenda after it had a first reading in the Senate this week.
Hamish Barwick |
21 Mar |
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State privacy commissioners around Australia have backed the federal government’s <i>Privacy Act</i> changes, saying that the Act will encourage organisations to be transparent about their management of people’s information.
Hamish Barwick |
18 Mar |
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Some Australian IT professionals have admitted that their organisation won’t be prepared for the Privacy Act amendments which come into effect today, according to the results of a new survey.
Hamish Barwick |
12 Mar |
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Two Australian CIOs are taking a cautious approach to cloud computing, citing fears about the security of cloud service providers.
Hamish Barwick |
17 Sep |
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Security firm Clearswift has acquired endpoint solutions developer Jedda Systems for an undisclosed sum.
Hamish Barwick |
10 Sep |
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Westpac Australia has warned customers to delete a hoax email which asks them to sign into a website in order to confirm their credit card details.
Hamish Barwick |
09 Sep |
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Security has improved at Hyundai Australia since the car manufacturer deployed an enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration system.
Hamish Barwick |
05 Sep |
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Symantec Australia held its annual symposium at the Sydney convention centre. Delegates heard insights from Symantec's Brenton Smith, Sean Kopelke and Fujitsu’s John Kaleski.
Hamish Barwick |
05 Sep |
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Arbor Networks has acquired Australian security analytics firm Packetloop and is set to hire 12 new staff for a Sydney research and development centre.
Hamish Barwick |
04 Sep |
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IT risk management is viewed as just another compliance burden by business stakeholders, according to the results of an ISACA Australia whitepaper.
Hamish Barwick |
28 Aug |
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Government workers in South Australia are getting briefed on security threats such as social engineering calls and emails as part of an awareness campaign.
Hamish Barwick |
23 Aug |
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Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has raised concerns with lengthy and complex website privacy policies after releasing the results from a privacy sweep of Australia’s 50 most visited sites.
Hamish Barwick |
14 Aug |
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The annual Security exhibition and conference took place in Sydney during July. Delegates heard from the Bank of England, NBN Co and terrorist expert Doctor Anne Speckhard.
Hamish Barwick |
29 Jul |
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Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has struck a $32 million five-year deal with Telstra for secure Internet gateway services.
Hamish Barwick |
05 Jul |
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